Blow out of biblical proportions

xgtdec

I just don't know what happened, for months and months i was eating such a clean clean diet and working out and loving it and all was happy days, dropping fat..looking good etc

Last week i went to a wedding and sank a few pints and since then its been snacks, kit kats, sticky toffee pudding, dominoes, big pasta portions, chinese etc, the list goes on, back this morning had a protein shake with one weetabix and some seeds mixed, gotta get the blood sugar regulated again...

but what a blow out, and i have no idea...not a clue how i got into it for the week, i was in a junk food sugar and bad fat trance......this ever happen to anyone?? part of the reason i'm putting it here is to make it a reality...sort of a "what have i done" moment ....anyone any advice/ideas on the why it happens or how to snap out of it quicker?...phew...relief to get that typed!!;)

jaggiebunnet

it's happening to me just now - decided to take the week off as I had a lot of physical work on over the weekend and paddys day and I am dog busy at work so don't have time to head off at lunch anyway this week....to compliment it my diet has been atrocious, so much so that i got a filling yesterday at the dentist and had a packet of crisps and a twix the minute i got back in the office - won't get any better this weekend either but gives me all the more reason to get back into it next week !

Brian?

If you gave yourself a cheat meal/day a week it might avoid major blowouts like this.

*Lees*

Happened to me a few weeks ago when I went on holidays, i just kept eating and eating and the scary thing was I couldn't even stop myself! I think I had been too strict on myself previous to that so the minute I got a taste of something nice I just couldn't stop!
I'm trying to get back on track for the past week but it's been difficult and I keep slipping up still!! Anyway, I think I had been too strict on myself the last few months, maybe if I had given myself a cheat meal I wouldn't have went as crazy as I did!!

connundrum

Without sounding like me ma, nothing is bad once it's in proportion. Except Oreo cookies, there's no bad amount of them :P

bubblyone

Think a lot of us have been there! Unfortunately I know I've let it turn into more than a few weeks before...and ended up doing lots of good work! The clean clean diet might have been the cause-maybe you were hungry and actually needed a refeed! In a way it might be a good thing. I'm loving Leigh Peele's approach at the moment and she incorporates refeed days and weeks into a lot of her plans to keep metabolism going....and to prevent you from blow-outs.
Also have been dipping into Beck Diet Solution and Tom Venuto's Body Fat Solution. A really useful thing from them was the idea of drawing a symbolic line after a slip, no matter what stage you manage to stop. You acknowledge the slip (you just did!), give yourself credit for stopping, continue to eat normally and learn from the mistake.

This is Leigh on "what to do after the binge". I found it helpful! http://avidityfitness.net/2009/05/05/what-to-do-after-the-binge/